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They are simply not compatible with a decision to admit Angus Milligan to study there.

Milligan was not a student when Dame Katherine took over as chancellor and made her declaration.

And to be completely fair to Scotland’s best ever female rower, it’s not clear whether she was even aware of the subsequent decision to allow him admission. She would not comment substantially when asked.

What’s not in doubt, though, is that her remarks could not be repeated with any credibility today.

Few, if any, would argue that Milligan does not have the right to rehabilitate himself following his appalling violent bullying of Emily Drouet.

He has completed a community payback order and presumably has most of his life ahead of him.

The fact that the same can’t be said of his victim is a tragedy with which Emily’s family must continue to cope.

Of this they have made a remarkable job, most recently with a campaign by her mum Fiona to improve campus safety for young women.

Angus Milligan pictured partying with a girl while at Oxford Brookes University (Image: Collect Unknown)